THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 19, January 20, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
REPUBLICANS SHOULD GO ON THE OFFENSIVE
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICAN PARTISAN POLITICS & POLITICAL COMPETITION: REPUBLICANS VERSUS DEMOCRATS -- THE NEED FOR
REPUBLICANS TO FOCUS ON THE THREAT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM, THE PROBLEM OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,
GOVERNMENTAL VIOLATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS, & OTHER NATIONAL ISSUES OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO
AMERICA'S FUTURE -- THE NEED FOR REPUBLICANS TO TAKE AGGRESSIVELY CONSERVATIVE & PATRIOTIC STANDS ON
THESE ISSUES & GO ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT, INCLUDING
DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS EAGER TO SACRIFICE OUR NATION'S SECURITY FOR THEIR OWN POLITICAL GAIN
FULL STORY:
Were Americans to be honestly polled about which national issues they
consider to be of primary importance to the future of the country,
terrorism, illegal immigration, and private property rights would likely
rank at the top. And, on at least two of these issues, the official stances
of Republicans and Democrats cannot be more starkly contrasted. As usual,
the Democrats are on the wrong side.
For the past month, America has been bombarded with constant caterwauling
from partisan Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the Liberal Leftist press that the Bush
administration might have violated the “privacy rights” of terrorists.
Of course, the political Left does not exactly characterize the NSA surveillance controversy with
such frankness. Rather, they avoid direct references to the identities,
national origins, and allegiances of the individuals whose incoming telephone
calls from known Al-Qa'ida operatives overseas were monitored in order to
prevent a recurrence of 9-11. Opinion polling works out so much better for
the Democrats that way.
Admittedly, a continual barrage of such hysterics by Democratic Party politicians and the Leftwing Liberal press does
indeed pose a risk that Americans might eventually become distracted by this
“straw dog” of lost privacy. The likely result would be the implementation
of roadblocks to such surveillance, allowing the security
apparatus that has so successfully protected the country since 9-11 to lapse
into disrepair.
A disturbing number of Americans are toying with the notion of reverting to
the 1990’s mindset, when these matters were given abysmally low priority.
And, if the nation does not recognize the importance of remaining focused on
the very real and unabated threat facing it, the trend could continue until
the unthinkable happens -- again.
Among Democrats, however, too much opportunity for political grandstanding is
presently available to be discouraged by such comparatively trivial concerns
as the lives of the American people, both on the streets of its cities and
in the battlefields where the terror war is presently being fought and won.
Of sole importance to Democrats is the potential prize of political dominance. So a bit
of “collateral damage” among their fellow citizens is apparently a small
price to pay.
While Democrats still remind us, with monotonous regularity, of the supposed
“outing” of Valerie Plame, information regarding her identity and profession
was readily available prior to the eruption of the situation as a “scandal.”
Consequently, no harm whatsoever accrued to the intelligence activities of
the U.S. Government as a result of that information having been made public.
In contrast, the covert monitoring of terrorist communications into this
country (and this is the only true context in which this situation can be
explained), which inarguably aided in the nation's ability to thwart
terrorist incursions, has now been severely, perhaps fatally, undermined.
Yet, those on the Left, once again, show no interest in getting to the bottom
of a real security breach, but, instead, relentlessly seek to characterize and
publicize the situation only as a means of exploiting it to their political
benefit.
No doubt, if terrorists successfully strike America once again (a likelihood
that has been greatly increased by the leaked information), George Bush’s
present critics will be among the loudest accusers of the Bush administration for
its failure to “connect the dots” in anticipation of any such attack.
Regardless of the horrific cost to American citizens, every situation can,
with sufficient imagination and moral flexibility, be portrayed as a failing of the Bush Presidency and turned into a
political liability of the Republican Party.
But Americans see their future imperiled on another front. Despite the
looming menace of murder and mayhem being suddenly inflicted by Islamist
radicals, few anticipate the possibility of such people stealing their land
and plundering their homes. That is the job of this country’s own,
out-of-control governing institutions.
Ever since last Summer’s Kelo decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court reversed
the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, public officials throughout the nation
have become increasingly aggressive in their seizures of private property.
They now claim “constitutional” authority to confiscate property and grant
ownership to those with more lucrative ambitions. Clearly, the right to own
property is no more protected than life or liberty.
Under the auspices of protecting “rights” and “liberty,” Senate Democrats
needlessly delayed the U.S Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Judge Alito for yet another week .
Hardly concerned with an overreaching government, their real concern is,
instead, to appease certain vocal constituencies, special interest groups such as the abortion lobby.
This is no time for Republicans to go on the defensive. By unabashedly
confronting Leftwing Liberalism and its malignant consequences, they can put the Left
to flight.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Terrorism & American Homeland Security
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
American Civil Liberties -- Private Property Rights
Appointment of U.S. Federal Judges
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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